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A night-time photograph of a group of men in white dhotis and white shirts walking along a dirt road. A man in the foreground, wearing a white shirt and white dhoti with a visitor badge on his chest, walks past a small truck with a blue tarpaulin covering its cargo. Several men in the group raise their hands in greeting. Strings of small lights glow in the background and dark trees line the road, with a yellow van at the right edge.

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